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Catching Up with Forty Creek Whisky Founder John Hall
WhiskyCast HD - January 27, 2019 00:59 - 12 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsForty Creek Whisky founder John K. Hall has kept a low profile since selling his distillery to Campari five years ago. He won dozens of awards for his whiskies at Forty Creek, and turned his startup into one of the best-selling Canadian whiskies around - earning him a place in Canadian Whisky his...
Cleaning Up Thousands of Bourbon Barrels at Barton 1792 Distillery
WhiskyCast HD - August 14, 2018 20:30 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsOn June 22, 2018, half of Warehouse 30 collapsed at the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, spilling around 9,000 barrels of whiskey. The rest of the warehouse collapsed on July 4 with another 9,000 barrels. Crews have been working since then to recover as many barrels - and as much Bo...
Crown Royal's Bourbon...Uh, Blenders' Mash
WhiskyCast HD - July 12, 2018 19:30 - 6 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsWith the ongoing trade dispute between the US and Canada, it's important to keep in mind that Canadian Whisky remains extremely popular in the US. Crown Royal has released the latest edition in its Noble Collection series - a 13-year-old "Blender's Mash" using one of the five different styles of ...
A Craft Distiller's Last Call
WhiskyCast HD - May 06, 2018 22:30 - 7 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsJames Yoakum opened Cooper River Distillers in 2014 in the heart of Camden, New Jersey - just wanting to make good whiskies and rum. He and his team did just that, but they learned an important lesson along the way: size matters. They couldn't make enough whiskey and rum to meet the demand, but t...
The Archivist Preserving Irish Whiskey's History
WhiskyCast HD - December 30, 2017 18:30 - 10 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsIrish Whiskey's history has been written over centuries, but Carol Quinn has the unique task of preserving the history that was actually written down. The professional archivist has spent the last five years cataloging more than two centuries' worth of historic documents, photographs, and bottles...
Whisky Starts with the Grain and "The Gatekeeper"
WhiskyCast HD - December 21, 2017 00:00 - 9 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsWe'll visit the Hiram Walker and Sons distillery in Windsor, Ontario, which uses around 100 million metric tons of grain each year to distill its Canadian whiskies, and meet "The Gatekeeper," Kristy Fregonese. It's her job to make sure that every truckload of grain that arrives at the distillery...
10 Years of Making Rye Whiskey at George Washington's Distillery
WhiskyCast HD - December 13, 2017 00:40 - 9 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsGeorge Washington's original whiskey distillery at his Mount Vernon estate in Virginia operated from 1797 until shortly after his death in 1799. In 2007, the restored distillery began producing rye whiskey using Washington's original recipe. Ten years later, distillers from around the United Stat...
A Snowflake Whiskey in the Rocky Mountains
WhiskyCast HD - December 10, 2017 00:40 - 13 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsOn the first Saturday each December, Stranahan's Distillery in Denver releases its annual Snowflake limited-edition single malt whiskey. The release party has become more than just a one-day event, as hundreds of whiskey lovers start camping outside the distillery days in advance to claim a spot ...
Reviving Whiskey Distilling in Dublin's Liberties
WhiskyCast HD - November 09, 2017 18:10 - 9 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDublin's Liberties neighborhood was once the center of the whiskey universe at a time when Irish Whiskey ruled the world more than 100 years ago. Changing tastes, wars, and economics ended that, and the last heritage distillery in the Liberties closed in 1976. Four decades later, the resurgence o...
Selling Whiskey in a Whisky World
WhiskyCast HD - October 21, 2017 15:50 - 8 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe boom in Bourbon and American Whiskey sales isn't just a North American phenomenon. Whisky lovers around the world are demanding Bourbon, Tennessee Whiskey, and other whiskies from legendary and new distilleries alike, as we found during The Whisky Show in London. Part of the demand is being c...
Taiwan’s King Car: A Distillery on Fire
WhiskyCast HD - August 30, 2017 19:30 - 9 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsBTaiwan's King Car Distillery is only 10 years old, yet its Kavalan single malt whiskies have won worldwide acclaim. As the distillery enters its second decade, Master Blender Ian Chang is leading his team with a heavy heart following the sudden death of his mentor earlier this year. Dr. Jim Swan...
WhiskyCast HD: Making Whisky Under a Bridge in Waco, Texas
WhiskyCast HD - June 21, 2017 22:20 - 7 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsBalcones Distilling moved into a brand-new modern whisky distillery in Waco, Texas in 2016, leaving behind its home in an old welding shop under the 17th Street Bridge a few blocks away. Head Distiller Jared Himstedt helped build the original distillery, and took us back for a tour of the largely...
WhiskyCast HD: Making Scotch Whisky the Old School Way with Floor Malting
WhiskyCast HD - May 13, 2017 01:00 - 11 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe pagodas that adorn the roofs of many whisky distilleries in Scotland aren't there just for show. Years ago, those pagodas reeked with smoke as distillers dried the malted barley they produced on their malting floors. Economics forced all but a handful of distilleries to shut down their maltin...
WhiskyCast HD: The Story of Green Spot Irish Whiskey
WhiskyCast HD - March 17, 2017 18:00 - 8 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor years, whiskey lovers spoke of a mysterious Irish Whiskey that could generally be found only in Ireland. Green Spot is a single pot still Irish Whiskey that was created by Mitchell and Son, the legendary Dublin wine and whiskey merchant. Green Spot got its name from the dab of green paint on ...
WhiskyCast HD: A Peek Inside Dublin’s New Jameson Distillery Bow Street
WhiskyCast HD - March 06, 2017 23:00 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe Old Jameson Distillery in Dublin has been one of Ireland's most popular tourist attractions for years, but it closed at the end of August 2016 for an €11 million renovation project. It has now reopened as the Jameson Distillery Bow Street, with a whole new approach to go along with the new na...
WhiskyCast HD: Inside the Port Ellen Maltings
WhiskyCast HD - December 28, 2016 19:00 - 9 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe days when each Scotch Whisky distillery malted its own barley are long gone, and only a few distilleries still have malting floors. Now, most distilleries get their malt from one of the 11 commercial maltings in Scotland, and we’ll go inside Diageo’s Port Ellen Maltings on Islay for a look at...
WhiskyCast HD: 200 Years of Whisky History at Islay’s Lagavulin Distillery
WhiskyCast HD - November 26, 2016 22:00 - 10 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsLagavulin Distillery on Scotland's Isle of Islay is celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2016. It's not Islay's largest distillery, nor does it make the island's smokiest single malt Scotch whisky. Instead, Lagavulin's distillers focus on making the best whisky they can every day, and that dedica...
WhiskyCast HD: Wine to Whisky: The Sherry Influence
WhiskyCast HD - September 16, 2016 15:00 - 9 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsMany of our favorite whiskies can be traced to Spain’s Sherry Triangle, the coastal region where Sherry comes from. We’ll look at the influence Sherry casks have on whiskies and visit the Antonio Páez Cooperage in Jerez, where Sherry casks are still made largely by hand.
WhiskyCast HD: What’s In a Name?
WhiskyCast HD - May 25, 2016 03:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsMany of Scotland's whisky distilleries are named after their towns, such as Aberlour, Bowmore, and Craigellachie. However, The Glenrothes is the exception...it's distilled in the Speyside town of Rothes, 92 miles north of Glenrothes in Fife. Glenrothes has a new distillery to call its own, and we...
WhiskyCast HD: Pouring The Perfect Pint of Guinness
WhiskyCast HD - March 16, 2016 18:00 - 9 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis is a special “throwback” video with the very first WhiskyCast video segment released on March 17, 2011 featuring former Guinness master brewer Fergal Murray demonstrating how to pull a perfect pint of Guinness from the tap.
WhiskyCast HD: The Brian Kinsman Interview
WhiskyCast HD - March 15, 2016 00:00 - 10 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsBrian Kinsman became the sixth Master Blender in the history of William Grant and Sons in 2009, following in the footsteps of his mentor, David Stewart. While Stewart continues to oversee The Balvenie, Kinsman is responsible for Glenfiddich, the Grant's blended Scotch whiskies, and the rest of th...
WhiskyCast HD:The First Still Run at Ireland’s Waterford Distillery
WhiskyCast HD - December 12, 2015 06:20 - 9 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsIt's rare to watch a whiskey distillery's stills run for the very first time, but that's what we're bringing you in this episode of WhiskyCast HD. Just a year and a week after buying the former Guinness brewery in Waterford, Ireland, Mark Reynier's Renegade Spirits has fired up the stills at what...
WhiskyCast HD: Don’t Try This At Home!
WhiskyCast HD - November 06, 2015 00:10 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhisky glasses come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and while most of us have our own personal favorite style of glass, they all start out the same way...white-hot molten glass on the end of a glass blower's pipe. As part of Auchentoshan's "Art of Auchentoshan" project, a group of whisky writer...
WhiskyCast HD: The Jim Beveridge Interview
WhiskyCast HD - October 16, 2015 00:10 - 12 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDr. Jim Beveridge is the Master Blender for Johnnie Walker, and leads a team of blenders at Diageo's blending lab in Menstrie, Scotland. He rarely does interviews, but sat down with WhiskyCast's Mark Gillespie recently in New York City to discuss the science and the art behind whisky blending.
WhiskyCast HD: Chatting with Bourbon Legends Parker Beam and Jimmy Russell
WhiskyCast HD - October 08, 2015 18:40 - 19 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsParker Beam and Jimmy Russell were part of the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame's inaugural class in 2001, and on September 16, 2015, Jimmy helped present Parker with the Hall of Fame's first Lifetime Achievement Award. The award has been named for Parker as a tribute to the longtime Heaven Hill mas...
WhiskyCast HD: Seattle’s Hometown Single Malt Whiskey
WhiskyCast HD - September 10, 2015 16:40 - 7 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsSeattle is known for coffee, but Westland Distillery wants Seattle to be known for its whiskey, too. Westland has already outgrown its original distillery, and is one of the few American distilleries producing single malt whiskey exclusively. Westland is also one of the few North American distill...
WhiskyCast HD: Silver Trail’s Story of Survival
WhiskyCast HD - August 28, 2015 01:12 - 14 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsKentucky had not had a fatal distillery accident since Prohibition until the morning of April 24, 2015, when the still at the Silver Trail Distillery suddenly over-pressurized and exploded. Distillers Jay Rogers and Kyle Rogers were hit with a blast of steam followed by burning alcohol, and both ...
Ric Scott Presents - While The World Sleeps Podcast 0715
Ric Scott Presents: While The World Sleeps - July 01, 2015 00:00 - 1 hourAtragun - Samarkand (Ric Scott Remix) Solis & Sean Truby feat. Irina_Makosh - Forever (Original Mix) Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade - Nalin & Kane Mix) Energy 52 - Café Del Mar '98 (Original Three 'N One Mix) Dash Berlin vs. Coldplay Ticking Clocks RAM and XB - Symphonik (Origin...
WhiskyCast HD: Bringing Whisky to Ballindalloch
WhiskyCast HD - June 16, 2015 05:12 - 6 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe Macpherson-Grant family has owned Scotland's Ballindalloch Estate for 469 years, so short-term thinking isn't in their DNA. The family has converted an old barn on the estate into Speyside's smallest distillery, with plans to release a Ballindalloch Single Malt Scotch Whisky years from now.
Ric Scott Presents - While The World Sleeps Podcast 0615
Ric Scott Presents: While The World Sleeps - May 27, 2015 00:00 - 1 hourTiesto - Adagio For Strings(TrancEon Uplifting Remake) David Surok - Blue Eyes (Original Mix) Abandoned Rainbow - I Want You Now (Original Mix) Afternova - Together We Are Strong (Manuel Rocca Remix) Ikerya Project feat.Muhib Khan - Its Over Now (Original Mix) Emanuele Congeddu & First ...
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